Last Sunday, we looked back at just a few of the good things that have been going on at our congregation. Want to know a little bit more? I thought I’d try to list out 101 different ways you can be involved at Burns. These are in no particular order. I’ve probably over-emphasized some areas and neglected others. Want to know more about one? Circle it and ask me or one of our elders.
- Attend faithfully (I know it’s obvious, but it matters more than you might think!)
- Clean up at the fellowship meals
- Cook a Wednesday Night dinner
- Help serve a Funeral meal
- Prepare food for a funeral meal
- Deliver meals to a shut-in
- Grill for our meals at the park
- Sit by someone sitting alone at a fellowship meal
- Haul off the trash from the building
- Decorate the Fellowship Hall for our Sweetheart’s Banquet
- Coordinate a Senior Saints Day
- Make Ice Cream for an ice cream social
- Send out invitations to our Spiritual Growth Workshop
- Have lunch with someone you don’t know
- Teach a Sunday School class
- Be a teacher’s helper in Sunday School
- Adopt a classroom (paint, clean, or update a room)
- Take attendance or count
- Be a “handyman” in the building
- Replace light bulbs in the building
- Pray for the preacher
- Pray for the elders
- Pray for the sick
- Unlock the doors on Sundays
- Lock the doors on Sundays
- Call someone who has missed services and check on them
- Be a door greeter or help people find their way
- Serve communion in worship
- Read scripture in worship
- Lead prayer in worship
- Lead a song in worship
- Prepare communion
- Clean up communion supplies
- Share communion with the sick or shut-ins
- Help count the contribution
- Run the A/V equipment for worship
- Give financially to the work of the church
- Maintain the baptistery supplies (towels, waders, etc.)
- Clean the baptistery
- Take care of the nursery (clean and swap out toys)
- Host a youth devotional in your home
- Adopt a bulletin board
- Take pictures at a church event
- Drive someone to church
- Drive someone to a doctor’s appointment
- Make a hospital visit to someone who is sick
- Visit one of our shut-ins or nursing home residents
- Adopt a teenager and take him or her out for ice cream
- Go to one of the teen’s school events and cheer loud enough to embarrass them
- Send a card to someone who needs encouragement
- Send a birthday card
- Send an anniversary card
- Write a note on the anniversary of a family member’s death
- Try a new Bible class
- Make a comment in class if you’re usually quiet
- Be quiet in class if you’re usually loud
- Decorate for Vacation Bible School
- Bring someone new to VBS or Sunday School
- Act in a VBS skit
- Sponsor a child for summer camp
- Work in the camp kitchen
- Coach camp recreation games
- Be a camp Bible class teacher
- Serve as a camp counselor
- Babysit to give parents a break
- Sit with a senior to give the caregivers a break
- Help do a “deep cleaning” in the church kitchen
- Refuse to listen to a gossip
- Tend the flowers in the foyer
- Send a “thank you” note to new visitors
- Learn someone’s name that you didn’t know
- Make phone calls when we need to get news out
- Help update the directory
- Help at the building when there is a wedding
- Put our sermons on the internet
- Learn to interpret for the deaf
- Participate in a summer youth activity
- Contribute financially to help a missionary
- Write an encouraging letter to a missionary
- Go on a mission trip
- Buy presents for our Christmas Project
- Wrap presents for Christmas
- Teach GED students in the jail
- Teach Bible class in the jail
- Buy glasses or underwear for an inmate
- Hold a sign at the CareNet 5k
- Load boxes at Disaster Relief
- Volunteer with CareNet
- Make food for the hungry at Soup for Souls
- Serve food at Soup for Souls
- Bring water to the Special Olympics
- Buy a book for the church library
- Give someone an invitation to church
- Do an errand for one of our seniors
- Use Facebook to share something from church
- Go to the ladies’ book club
- Help host a wedding or baby shower
- Fix something in the building that’s broken
- Take one of the elders to lunch
- Invent a new outreach idea for the church
- Pray for someone
How will you get involved?
